Strava Heatmap
Jan 11, 2015 23:02:03 GMT -5
Post by AegisIII on Jan 11, 2015 23:02:03 GMT -5
Heatmap
This link made it around the web a few months ago. Posting it here as it can be useful for everyone here also. You can see the popularity of various trails, and can also discover ones you'd never know existed (even I've been able to find some of those).
You can set to look at biking, running or both. I suggest not using "both", as that reduces the intensity of the trails. Also remember that this shows both trail and road use. There are some odd quirks, likely due to sampling, griding, or weighting of their data. It shows trails becoming much less popular near major road crossings and in trail towns, for example (and I'm sure that's just an artifact).
There's also some misclassified data, usually under the biking category (though some of that is due to illicit trail use.) Thus, the Appalachian Trail does show up for light bike use, but then again, so does the Billy Goat Trail and Old Rag Mountain, and further away, inside the Grand Canyon, Angels Landing at Zion, and Yosemete's Half Dome. And I'm fairly certain nobody bikes those.
This link made it around the web a few months ago. Posting it here as it can be useful for everyone here also. You can see the popularity of various trails, and can also discover ones you'd never know existed (even I've been able to find some of those).
You can set to look at biking, running or both. I suggest not using "both", as that reduces the intensity of the trails. Also remember that this shows both trail and road use. There are some odd quirks, likely due to sampling, griding, or weighting of their data. It shows trails becoming much less popular near major road crossings and in trail towns, for example (and I'm sure that's just an artifact).
There's also some misclassified data, usually under the biking category (though some of that is due to illicit trail use.) Thus, the Appalachian Trail does show up for light bike use, but then again, so does the Billy Goat Trail and Old Rag Mountain, and further away, inside the Grand Canyon, Angels Landing at Zion, and Yosemete's Half Dome. And I'm fairly certain nobody bikes those.
